Had a great lesson with Steve and Dave from Chorley. Dave has been fly fishing revervoirs and stillwaters for about 5 years but Steve is a relative newcomer to our sport.
Like most self taught fly fishers, Dave showed all the faults that you would expect, too much power and a bit wristy but improved really quickly and was soon casting very well with lots of control and more distance than he normally would achieve.
Once Steve understood the basics of how to cast he made great progress and should go on to be a very capable fly fisher.
A 2 hour lesson like this one is normally enough to iron out the problems with all self taught fly fishers and make real improvements. All revervoir fly fishers want to cast further (although this is not always required!) Distance comes with pure technique NOT power!!
The other major obstacle comes with being able to cope with the wind - technique and keeping yourself safe are the primary objectives.
Steve and Dave will now practice the techniques learnt in this lesson and then come back for another session to make more improvements.
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